The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24

BROCK & WIENER, wholesale clothing
manufacturers and dealers, of Buffalo, n.
Y, have made an assignment Liabilities,
100000; preferences aggregate $4,000.
AT the Brasfeld trotting horse sale at
Lexington, KY, recently, sixty-four horses
brought s22,2S The best price was 81, 800,
paid for the bay stallion c. P. Clay.
THE secret society recently discovered in
st. Petersburg contemplated no harm to
the Gar.
ADvICEs from Pagas state that King
Tofa, of Porto Novo, India, has prscticed
horrible cruelties toward subordinate
princes, cutting out their eyes and tongues,
breaking jaws and scalping and burning
them
THE commissioners Of Kings County.
Washington Territory, have asked Con-
gress to repay them a, l6S expended during
| the anti-C Chinese disturbances In November,
1885. and February, 1856.
The British ship Swan, heavily laden
with cotton, was recently ashore in the Gulf
of Mexico west of Cedar Keys.
ROBERT BONNER, it was reported, has de-
clined an offer of 100000 for the trotter
Maud 8.
THE mutilated body of man was found
on the edge of a pond at Eddington, Y. j.,
recently Head and arms were missing,
and circumstances pointed to another
shocking tragedy.
FIVE men were killed and two badly in
jured near Levant, Ontario, recently by a
fall of earth in the Wilbur mines.
| DEANS dynamite works at Eldred, near
Bradford, Pa, blew up recently. Five dwell
ling houses were destroyed and three ladies
were injured.
THE President has sent the following
nomintions to the Senate: Samuel NJ. Aid
rich, of Massachusetts,, to be Assistant
Treasurer of the United States at Boston;
Arthur K. Delaney, of Wisconsin, to be
Collector of Customs for 1.-THE District of
Alaska; William NJ. Armstrong, to be
Postmaster at Cleveland, o.
THOMAS HANLoN, who was rejected by the
| Senate as United States Internal Revenue
Agent for the Seventh Indiana district, shot
and mortally wounded Lewis Sicar, at
Louisville, KY, recently.
THE head cashier of the Banco Industrial
of Havana, Cuba, has disappeared with
! $3.50 in gold of the institution.
JUDGE THOMAS M. JOSEPH, of Galveston,
Tex, late grand treasurer of the Texas
Odd Fellows, has confessed that he embez-
zled S23, 1S5, the total funds of the grand
lodge and lost them in mining speculatioHs.
RUssIA's attempts to secure German sup
it is learned. according to dispatch from
Berlin, that as last resort she has offered
to observe complete neutrality in case of a
conflict between France and Germany.
EMIL HoLUB, the African explorer, has
reached Shospong, Bechuanaland, in a des-
| titute condition, his camp on Like Bang
welo having been attacked and plundered
by natives and his fellow explorer, Zotner,
murdered. Holub was absent at the time
of the attack.
WARDEN HOWARD, of the penitentiary at
Jeffersonville, Ind, is accused of defalca-
tions ranging between 500, 600 and $4,000.
FREDERICKTOwN, Mo-, reported a heavy
shock of earthquake on the night of the
18th.
THE Russian mail steamer Czaritza, from
Constantinople for Alexandria, has found
cred off Syria.
A YOUNG girl and man lost their lives
at Rochester, n. Y, during the storm OF
the 18th. They were standing on bridge
when it went down and were swept into the
torrent.
IN the Lester-Butler trial at New York,
the jury found for the defendant.
THE Goodyear Rubber Company, at Nau-
gatuck, Conn, hasnshut down indefinitely.
An examination of the Susquehanna and
| Underwater canal at Lancaster, Ia, SHOWS
the damage by ice to be much greater than
first reported. 1t is estimated that 500, 0OO
will be required to repair the damage and
put the canal in boating condition.
THE signal officer at Ocean City, Nd, re-
ported the Italian bark Quattero from
Buenos Ayres to Delaware breakwater,
ashore above that place.
SIX men lost their lives recently by an
explosion in the Clutch collIery, Rhondda
valley, Wales.
ITALIAN laborers gave trouble to p olice
officers at Ware, Mass, recently. In the
melee an Italian named Lavoro was fatally
| wounded.
Dun q Co.'s report of the 18th says:
| Business failures during the last seven
days number, for the United States, 222; ;
| for Canada, 80; against 267 last week and
2S6 the corresponding week of last year.
Failures are large and on the increase"
ANOTHER blizzard and snowstorm was
reported IN Dakota and Minnesota on the
! 18th. Great suffering was experienced on
account of the lack of fuel.
| SEVERAL witnesses testified on the 18th
before the Senate Committee investigat-
ing the alleged Texas outrages that they
had received notices to quit the country.